Richard Arnold Quotes

Size counts. That's all.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and in all cases, their size and their material construction are totally different matters even though they affect one another.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

What gets measured, gets done.

I have several times suggested that what I call the “Establishment” in this country is today more powerful than ever before. By “Establishment” I do not mean only the centers of official power – though they are certainly part of it – but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised ... the “Establishment” can be seen at work in the activities of, not only the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Earl Marshal, but of such lesser mortals as the Chairman of the Arts Council, the Director-General of the BBC, and even the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, not to mention dignitaries like Lady Violet Bonham Carter.

The instruments of state prove too big to do the small things and too small to do the big things.

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

It's not about size, it's a science.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Those that are little, little things suit.

Mathematics is the language of size.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

Size is no guarantee of power.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.

Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Things well fitted abide.